[ILUG] how not to download a DVD ISO image, a step-by-step guide

[Brian Foster]

 how not to download a DVD ISO image,
 in easy steps ....

 0. the Kubunto 7.10 DVD image is c.4.3GiB

 1. if wget(1) reports the size of the download
    to be only c.300,000,000, it ain't the full
    image.  ignore ....

 2. if wget only takes 20 minutes at c.240K/s,
    it ain't the full image  ignore ....

 3. inexplicitably ignore the MD5SUMS file and
    its contents ....

 4. if it takes a surprisingly short amount of
    time to burn to a DVD-R, it ain't the full
    image.  wonder about this, but ignore ....

 5. watch DVD boot into grub, but then repeatedly
    fail.  creatively curse, verify (using dd(1)
    and cmp(1)) the DVD was burnt correctly, and
    start another wget.

 6. step 1, again.

 7. wonder why, after just a few minutes, wget
    reports a substantial percentage of the image
    has been downloaded.  THE LIGHT DAWNS ....

 8. more creative cursing, stop the wget, and
    use FireFox to download instead (carefully
    checking that it reports the right size and
    a plausible estimated time) ....

 the end.  (I hope.)
 and I hadn't even had a drink yet!

 no small cute fuzzy animals were harmed in the
 making of this mess, albeit a foam rubber penguin
 did bounce off a wall.  now where it'd go to ....?

cheers, an embarrassed
	-blf-
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